This guest post is by Udi Tirosh of DIYPhotography. When you start blogging it seems that there is never enough time—especially if you aren't blogging full time, and you're doing it from home. You get phone calls that need to be picked up; the service guy for the dishwasher shows up; you must read that [...]

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Hulu has made a name for itself as King of video ads, continuously ranking at the top of comScore’s online video rankings in terms of ads viewed.  Hulu ads are twice as effective as television ads and part of the reason for this is that the online video site gives viewers quite a bit of control over their video ad experience.  They’ve asked viewers to let them know whether ads are relevant for them, have let viewers select the type of ad they’d like to see and now they’ve launched a new ad innov [...]

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Burn the Rope has made its way from the iOS universe to Windows Phone. The $2.99 takes a relatively simple premise – burn all the rope by making sure the flame(s) always burn upwards – and creates increasingly complex scenarios to solve. Manipulating the phone to keep that flame moving upward is a lot tricker than it sounds after the first one or two simple scenarios.


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There is not such thing, it seems, as too many news aggregation apps with a social networking twist. The latest to join apps like Flipboard and Zite


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Photo by: Ofer VaknineBay’s acquisition of The Gifts Project started about eight months ago, and the deal finally closed this week. The selling price is rumored anywhere between ten million and twenty million dollars. The company was started two years ago by Ron and Maya Gura with Erez Dickman and Matan Bar.


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The latest viral ad for Wonderful Pistachios stars the Winklevoss twins, Cameron and Tyler, and they’re not just promoting pistachios—they’re also taking a not-so-subtle jab at Mark Zuckerberg.


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First KDDI's iida INFOBAR, then Sharp's clamshell Android phone HYBRID oo7SH, and now the so-called Smart Bar [JP]: Japan is getting more and more specially designed Android handsets. As you can see on the pictures, the Smart Bar adopts the "traditional" candy bar form factor but is actually powered by Android Gingerbread.

The device is manufactured by Huawei and will be distributed in Japan by mobile carrier eMobile. Targeted mainly at female users, the phones comes with a 3-inch WVGA touch di [...]

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After a steady stream of information in June, all has been quiet on the Facebook Project Spartan front in recent weeks. Originally, at least some thought the plan was to unveil Spartan in July — but that obviously came and went. It's certainly possible we won't hear anything until f8 in late September now. But one new bit of information has come to our attention that could be related. Say hello to BoltJS.

BoltJS is a UI framework that's being built by Facebook for the purpose "helping developer [...]

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HTC is prepping its first Honeycomb tab for release. Previous rumors placed the Puccini hitting the shelves sometime at the end of August or early September. That seems slightly more likely per a new report that states "late Q3 or early Q4." But the question remains, does the market need another Honeycomb tablet, even one as powerful as the Puccini, when Ice Cream Sandwich is right around the corner?

Read More: The HTC Puccini Tab Nears Release, But Is There Room For Yet Another Honeycomb Tab?

There has still yet to be a universal proclamation from a sports league commissioner as to what to do about Twitter, as policy continues to be at the discretion of a coach, general manager, or owner. Yet everyone associated with sports simply offer their admonition and constantly suggest a touch of discipline when it comes to the social networking site. In college sports, however, another coach has added his team to the list of non-tweeters.

Read More: Another College Coach Bans His Team From Twitter – Is He Right To Do So?

This guest post is by Stephanie Hetu of StephanieHetu.com. Most of us international bloggers learned pretty much everything we know in English, just because the community of bloggers is there, huge, active, and available. We don't have to search very far to learn all sorts of little tips and tricks to make our blogs more [...]

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Last week, Facebook's marketing head, Randi Zuckerberg, caused a stir when she asserted that online anonymity has to go away. But the reason large, powerful networks are pushing for a world in which our verified and authenticated identities exist online isn’t simply to stop cyber-bullying and to create incentives for users to behave more nicely. This is about money. Part of the company's drive is also to help users leverage their online identities to transform and accelerate online commerce.

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